Creativity solved drone case

A big thank you goes to those who volunteered and provided a solution and offered solutions to my dilemma: a drone helicopter stuck in a statue. I had no intention of getting it stuck more than 100 feet above the ground in the arms of justice atop the Marion County Courthouse. It was not my desire to cause concern. I was simply trying to create a promotional video, quietly, to help Marion's Convention and Visitors Bureau and the local business development organization CAN DO!

It's amazing the story went "viral." It was all over the Internet, news publications, television and radio across the country. The image was funny, seeing Lady Justice holding something that was clearly not a part of her. Many people laughed and asked the question, "How the hell did you do that?"

Our community is fortunate to have people with problem-solving skills, and volunteers. I believe our community can solve any problem. However, I am concerned about the problem-solving skills of the local leadership. The county commissioners would have been satisfied to leave the helicopter in the arms of justice. The sheriff took a report. The leadership was perplexed and offered no solution. I was considered a "yahoo." My community involvement contradicts that: volunteer fundraising video for Veterans Memorial Park with 72-piece symphonic score; five-day field production in Marion for Panasonic, whose video was shown internationally; volunteer video documentation for Heritage Hall; volunteer television commercials and materials for Lincoln Park Family Aquatic Center; volunteer creator of Marion's first successful community garden and contributions to the sheriff's helicopter hanger. The sheriff considers me a "yahoo"?

Thank you to those who saw the innocuous and humorous side of this incident, the media for being understanding, sympathetic and fairly accurate, and the volunteers with the solution: Bart and Doug Hooper, Midstate Contracting, Inc. The sky is not falling, Marion, and I am moving forward; this is history.

Terry Cline

Marion

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Creativity solved drone case

Dear Editor: A big thank you goes to those who volunteered and provided a solution and offered solutions to my dilemma: a drone helicopter stuck in a statue.